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Best Firsts Quotes by C.S. Lewis
- The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those…
- My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and…
- [To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a…
- Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this…
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake…
- A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys…
- To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were,…
- The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all…
- First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear…
- The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb,…
- You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is…
- To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I…
- The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart.
- Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must…
- Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy.…
- God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a…
- You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is…
- You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or…
- An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that…
- Will you come with me to the mountains? It will hurt at first, until your feet are hardened. Reality is harsh to the feet of…
- Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched,…
- You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind…
- In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy,…
- The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job…
- Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong